>> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> gunfire wakes up a senior citizen's complex after an off-duty security guard confront as car thief who appeared to pull a gun. >> some residents have never seen this kind of violence if their neighborhood. the off duty guard is now answering a lot of questions why he shot the suspect. abc7 news reporter matt keller joins us from the apartments. >> the person who was shot outside the senior living apartments will be arrested and the man who pulled the trigger may never be pulled.

>> the apartments in south san jose says "welcome home," but there was an unwelcome nose this morning at 1:30. gunfire. >> bing, bing, bing. i waited to see if i would hear sigh remembers. >> my sister and wife were excited and loud they woke me up and i was interested and the excitement, san jose excitement. show that? >> an off-duty security guard going to his dad's apartment spot add man breaking into his dad's car. he confronted the suspect who jumped in a waiting car before jumping out and appearing to draw a weapon. that is when the off duty security guard drew the gun and fired. >> he felt he was in fear for his safety or his life, and he was probably well in his rights to go ahead and fire but we would have to speak to him and find out what he was thinking. >> the suspect got back in the car and it sped off. the vehicle was close by abandoned in a residential area

reported stolen. the burglary suspect was found a block away with one gunshot wound. he was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. officers did not fine the other three. property theft crimes like car break ins have skyrocketed in san jose but rarely is there a violent confrontation. >> i am afraid to leave this area. >> it happened frequently? >> yes. i am looking for another place. >> no weapon was found on the burglary suspect. as for the shooter he is interviewed by police and it will be up to the district attorney to determine if charges will be filed against him. >> matt, thank you very much. robbers posing at utility workers have struck again in the bay area, and this time, robbers rifled the home on the oakland piedmont border. police are warning people to be

careful. abc7 news reporter joins us with more on this story. amy? >> people are nervous to be walking and shopping on lake shore avenue and on grand avenue. they tell us threw e-mails they are all hearing about different robberies. one of the latest robberies is a nail salon where masked men went inside and robbed the employees and the clients. people tell us that it is also happening to people inside their homes. the latest one happened yesterday on sunny hills road and in many cases they posing as work crews to get inside the house. one case, the perpetrator said he was with the city and there was a water main break and the homeowner needed to move his car and he was robbed at gunpoint. yesterday, the bad guys pretended to be with pg&e. >> people put on orange vests and knock on the door and say we need to look at the back of your property and they claim they are from pg&e and the homeowner went to let them in and then someone

goes in the we we house and raids the house. we are not even safe in our homes where someone knocks on the door because we on the door and it is terrifying to think you cannot do that anymore. >> he is one of the activists in the neighborhood calling for changes. pg&e gave us a list of safety tips reminding people to ask to see an i.d., call pg&e if you are in doubt about the person at your door. if you made an appointment you will receive a phone call prior to the appointment to confirm it. residents tell me they are ready to get organized and they do not want to tolerate this and they are worried that someone will get hurt and i got off the phone with the city council member for this area and she is scheduling a community meeting to address this for the week of september 9. he is working to confirm an exact date. she says that police are addressing this and she says they are adding bicycle patrols to the area. she says the problem, sometimes,

is a crackdown in neighborhood the crime shifts to another neighborhood. it appears it has shifted to this area now. >> thank you, amy. we have at least another day of fire danger ahead of us. we will check with abc7 news reporter mike nicco. mike? >>guest: good morning, everyone, not only here but, also, our northern mountains and over in the sierra all the areas you see in red is where we have the high fire danger, and we will zoom in on our neighborhood , the red flag warning until 3:00 and the national weather service may go ahead and drop this because the threat of thunderstorms is very light. right now, it is until 3:00 tomorrow morning, now, live doppler 7 hd shows it is quiet over the high fire danger and quiet everywhere around the bay area, most of the storms are where i think they are going to be the next 24 to 36 hours, in

the sierra and headed to the northern maintains. we will want it now and talk about the weekend forecast when we come back in a few minutes. >> the latest now with the massive wildfire burning near yosemite national park which has grown by thousands of acres but firefighters are finally making headway. abc7 news reporter katie marzullo is in the newsroom. the bay area crews are there. >> i talked with the battalion chief from oakland and they have an engine and a four-person crew at the rim party part of a five engine team from the bay area doing structure protection right now. right now, new members on the fire, it has burned 16,000 acres and is 5 percent contained. >> the flames are so large, creating so were smoke, a news helicopter kept its distance this morning capturing only the hazy sky. on the ground, the fire is fierce, and highway 120 is shut down in both directions, blocking traffic in and out of row cement's west side.

for one woman that means not knowing if her home is still standing. >> we have been up there for 15 or 18 years and we just had a family reunion up there, the first weekend of august with 60 people up there. >> the rim fire destroyed two homes and seven other buildings and the forest service says 2,500 more structures are under threat in the communities nearby of the many are leaving under voluntary evacuation advisories. >> i have 50 years' worth of memories in this house and it is very difficult to choose what to take. mostly, then, pictures. pictures. pictures and more pictures. our terrifying how fast it is moving. i don't know what to think anymore. >> the fire is burning next extreme terrain and firefighters, more than 800 of them, are not trying to stop the flames as they burn in the wildness but they are protecting property. >> campgrounds along highway 120 have been evacuated including

three camps run by bay area cities, senior citizens and students from san francisco, san jose, and berkeley, have all been relocated or sent home and despite all of this and the growing fire, yosemite national park is still open. stay with abc7 news for the very latest on the fire near yosemite, we have a crew en route and we will have coverage on our newscast at 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00 with the latest breaking news alerts by following us on twitter@abcnewsbayarea. >> sit in that began at city hall is over at police broke it up this morning, 26 people, many of them city college of san francisco students remain cited and released just before 1:00 o'clock a.m. and they be charged with trespassing and unlawful assembly rallying last night and staging a sit in at the mayor's office. they demand the mayor take a

stand to help keep accreditation to prevent closure in july. >> a rally calling for safer streets got underway in san francisco at the cite of a deadly bicycle accident. this morning, members of the san francisco coalition gathered at 6th to support a plan to make designated bicycle lanes safer. a 24-year-old was riding a bicycle and she was hit by a truck. the driver was not cited of the bicycle coalition says this is the third time this year that a bicyclist has been hit and killed. >> the oak coliseum is joining the effort to find a missing toddler who disappeared six weeks ago without a trace. the coliseum is posting information on the billboard open coliseum way so drivers can see it and it has a picture of the baby daphne webb and the hotline information. she vanished from her father's car july ten when he was in a store in east oakland. >> the clock is ticking and the

bay bridge will close in a week to prepare for the opening of the new eastern span. law enforcement will talk about how it will handle public safety issues during the five day closg and after the bridge opens. sky 7 shows the new eastern span right there on the left and it is set to open on tuesday, after the labor day weekend in time for the morning commute. officials say it will be a new experience for all drivers with traffic moving from two stacked decks on the current bridge to the parallel side-by-side decks of the new eastern span. >> again, the work to prepare the new span for opening will necessity the closure of the bay bridge six days from now, it begins late in the evening on wednesday, august 28 and it will last for up to five full days over the long labor day holiday and will re-open by tuesday, september 3, the day after labor day the transit is offering ask bus service to catch a bart train. bart will operate trains around the clock at several stations including san francisco bay

ferry is expanding its schedule and if you have to drive during the shutdown, you can download abc7 news exclusive traffic app to get around all that gridlock. we have complete details on the bridge closure and how to get around at abc7news.com. >> next, a strong earthquake shakes mexico. >> this is a 189-year-old church on fire. the firefighters were suddenly ordered out of the building this morning. >> sentencing day for the man who leaked thousands of classified u.s. government documents. the prosecution wanted 90 years. we will tell yo

>> a strong earthquake hit mexico's capitol with a magnitude 6.2 earthquake and was centered 34 miles inland from acapulco and struck at 5:30. a 5.2 after shock hit half an hour later with reports of cracks buildings but no reports of major damage or injuries. >> three firefighters were damaged battling a fire in boston. all were ordered out of the building before part of the interior ceiling began to collapse. st. john the baptist church was built 189 years ago and now it could all collapse. the cause of the fire is under

investigation but it appears to have started near the altar. >> a military judge sentenced army private bradley manning to 35 years in prison this morning. he arrived at fort meade in maryland for the sentencing. he faced up to 90 years in prison for leaking classified undocuments to wikileaks in 2010 but the lawyers asked the judge for leniency after he apologized to the court and said he had not intended to court anyone. the lawyers plan to appeal the conviction. >> meteorologist mike nicco is straight ahead with the forecast. >> still pretty great if a lot of areas. from emeryville looking back across the bay bridge to san francisco we have flight arrival delays in san francisco because of the clouds with a cooling trend on the way after the last round of thunderstorms. >> the hot new website attracting millions of teens, and parents

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>> covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell, and all bay area, this is abc7 news. >> a popular new website has parents and experts expressing new concerns this morning. the latest site for teams to share photos and gossip and they can post without their parents knowing and a way of connecting to other teens. they open themselves up to anonymous bullying. >> the bullying got worse and worse and i would be sitting in bed and i would cry. >> dangerous thing for some teens to go on the sites because they are met with such hostility

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you take two. >> you do not take two of these tablets and call your doctor because they tough to swallow. they are this big. mike? >> expensive, too. >> absolutely, now, we will go ahead and jump in with both feet and talk about live doppler 7 hd and how quiet it is. the radar return off the coast near sea ranch and maybe mid-level moisture but not making it to the ground. right new everything else is quiet and small craft advisory is when you know the sea breeze is more prevalent in our lives and 1:00 o'clock this afternoon to 9:00 and the bay water into the delta, west wind at 15- to 25-knots and forward we have a 28 miles per hour and there is a sea breeze, and 12 miles per hour in napa and everyone else is below ten miles per hour. here is a look at the satellite, a couple of things to point out at the coast and the marine layer of clouds and the sierra, the bubbling of the clouds and thunderstorms developing in the

high country, as far as our temperatures we are 61 in half moon bay and san francisco and oak for the cool spots and 77 in antioch, and 71 in livermore and 72 in los gatos. everyone else is in the money 60's. here is san francisco, the embarcadero from our exploritorium camera. thunderstorms and fire and the best chance in the north bay today but it is not a great chance were cooler and cloudy, coming like this morning because of the marine layer is going to be more dominant in our forecast and that is going to take our average below -- our highs below average for the weekend. today, upper 70's to near 80 in the south bay with cupertino at 80 and los gatos as usual, a little bit warmer in the mid-to-upper 80's. and headed up the peninsula we have mid-to-upper 70's in most neighborhoods and 72 in millbrae, mid-60's at the coast and upper 60's in downtown and south san francisco and

mid-to-upper 70's through the north bay valley. and 70 at berkeley to 77 in fremont. and seven degree spread along the shoreline and oak at 72 and in the east bay valley, not so sticky or as stuffy. the stuff will come out in the coliseum so have the sun screen and warming up to 71. at at&t park, ten minutes later, it will take an hour longer to get real sunshine at at&t park and we will start at 64 and warm to about 66. watch out for the breezes. tonight in the mid-to-upper 50's and the best chance of any stray thunderstorm across the north bay and if you look at the wins with the low it is push the moisture to the sierra and that is naturally lifting the moisture and the best chance of thunderstorms will be in the sierra as we head to the afternoon hours, and through tomorrow, it is quiet and our best chance of seeing thunderstorms are north of us tomorrow afternoon and through the evening hours and that is

why the red flag warping could be dropped. now, friday, you can see the cooling trend for saturday and sunday. >> 290-year-old --

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awareness for a muscular distrophy charity. >> they were so brave. >> their parents...after the parents got the smelling salts, they were fine. >> thank you very much for join us.

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